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2020: Record for flight speed to the ISS

On October 14, 2020, TASS reported that the Soyuz MS-17 ship with three crew members first flew to the ISS in a two-turn scheme, setting a record for flight speed to the station - about three hours seven minutes. He docked with the Dawn module, follows from the broadcast, which was conducted on the Roscosmos website.

Soyuz MS-17 set a record for flight speed to the ISS. Source photo: energia.ru

The ship docked at the station at 11:48 Moscow time. Thus, the flight took three hours and three minutes.

At Soyuz MS-17, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, as well as American astronaut Kathleen Rubins, joined the ISS. Now the crew of the International Space Station will have to check the tightness of the docking, after which the pressure between the manned ship and the ISS will be leveled. Then Ryzhikov, Kud-Cherchkov and Rubins will be able to go to the station.

The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle was launched on Wednesday from the 31st site of the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 08:45 Moscow time.

The crew will spend 177 days in orbit. During this time, Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov will conduct 55 scientific studies and experiments, of which four are new. They will also continue to search for the place of air leakage in the transition compartment of the Zvezda module. Astronauts will make two spacewalks. One of them is scheduled for November 2020, the second for February 2021. They are planned to prepare the undocking and flooding of the Pier module in 2011. This is necessary to free up space for the Science module, which will be launched in April 2021.

On October 14, 2020, Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner, as well as NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy^[1].

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